Today, the consensus among leading forecasters is that we can expect continued rapid growth in renewables. Wind and solar power provided 6 per cent of the world’s electricity in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency. By 2040, they are projected... 

The lukewarm response to the report of the commission set up to advise on plans for the elimination of coal use in Germany is understandable. The commission’s conclusions push the end of coal use out to 2038. The plan is cautious enough to have secured... 

For the global energy industry, China’s importance is hard to overstate. It is the world’s largest oil importer and is on course to be the largest gas importer this year. It accounts for about half the world’s coal consumption and almost a third... 

China’s energy policies may, at first, seem paradoxical: it is shooting for the stars and it is working to have renewable energy start replacing coal-fired electricity. That’s a hard task in a country where coal is now 60% of its electricity base... 

1) Global coal demand will remain stable World coal consumption has never been higher than it was in 2013-14, but it seems that that level was a plateau rather than a peak. After declining over 2014-16, global coal demand started to pick up in 2017,... 

Since 2000, the world has doubled its coal-fired power capacity to 2,000 gigawatts (GW) after explosive growth in China and India. Another 200GW is being built and 450GW is planned. More recently, 200GW has closed due to a wave of retirements across the... 

1. US oil production exceeded expectations. A year ago, the Energy Information Administration estimated that US crude production would increase in 2018, below 600,000 barrels. This proved to be an inadequate statement: the actual increase was about 1.6... 

Germany says goodbye to the eda black diamond. The last mine of Bottrop, which was active in the country, was removed for the last time yesterday. Thus, in Germany, coal-mining mines have become history. During the generations in the Ruhr Region, also... 

Fossil fuel producers may need $90 billion a year or more to spread carbon capture technology. Some of the world’s biggest fossil-fuel producers are calling on taxpayers to help them kick their pollution habit. The world’s biggest oil, natural gas...